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The U.S. House of Representatives primary elections in Louisiana were on November 5, 2024. Voters elected six candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's six U.S. House districts. The general election was December 7, 2024. The filing deadline was July 19, 2024.
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from Louisiana -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2024 | After the 2024 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 1 | 2 | |
| Republican Party | 5 | 4 | |
| Total | 6 | 6 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
The general election was canceled.
Primary candidates
- Steve Scalise (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Randall Arrington (Republican Party)
- Frankie Hyers (Unaffiliated)
- Mel Manuel (Democratic Party)
- Ross Shales (Republican Party)
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 2
General election candidates
The general election was canceled.
Primary candidates
- Troy Carter (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Devin Davis (Democratic Party)
- Devin Lance Graham (Republican Party)
- Christy Lynch (Republican Party)
- Shondrell Perrilloux (Republican Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 3
General election candidates
The general election was canceled.
Primary candidates
- Clay Higgins (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Priscilla Gonzalez (Democratic Party)
- Xan John (Republican Party)
- Sadi Summerlin (Democratic Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 4
General election candidates
The general election was canceled.
Primary candidates
- Mike Johnson (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Joshua Morott (Republican Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 5
General election candidates
The general election was canceled.
Primary candidates
- Julia Letlow (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- M.V. Mendoza (Republican Party)
- Michael Vallien Jr. (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 6
General election candidates
The general election was canceled.
Primary candidates
- Quentin Anthony Anderson (Democratic Party)
- Cleo Fields (Democratic Party) ✔
- Elbert Guillory (Republican Party)
- Wilken Jones Jr. (Democratic Party)
- Peter Williams (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Garret Graves (Incumbent)
- Scott Sonnier
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Louisiana
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- Louisiana's 1st Congressional District
- Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District
- Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District
- Louisiana's 4th Congressional District
- Louisiana's 5th Congressional District
- Louisiana's 6th Congressional District
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Louisiana in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Louisiana, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Office | Party | Signatures required[5] | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| Louisiana | U.S. House | Democratic or Republican | 1,000 | $900.00 | 7/19/2024 | Source |
| Louisiana | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 1,000 | $600.00 | 7/19/2024 | Source |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Louisiana.
| Louisiana U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested top-two primaries[6] | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | |||||
| 2024 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 24 | 6 | 5 | 83.3% | 4 | 80.0% | |||||
| 2022 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 66.7% | 4 | 66.7% | |||||
| 2020 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 30 | 6 | 6 | 100.0% | 5 | 100.0% | |||||
| 2018 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 28 | 6 | 6 | 100.0% | 6 | 100.0% | |||||
| 2016 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 39 | 6 | 5 | 83.3% | 3 | 75.0% | |||||
| 2014 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 35 | 6 | 5 | 83.3% | 3 | 60.0% | |||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Louisiana in 2024. Information below was calculated on September 2, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
This was the first election to take place after Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry (R) signed revised congressional maps into law on Jan. 22, 2024. On May 15, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked an April 30 ruling by the U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana striking down the state's congressional map. As a result, the map was used for Louisiana’s 2024 congressional elections. For information about redistricting in Louisiana after the 2020 census, click here.
Twenty-four candidates—10 Democrats, 13 Republicans, and one unaffiliated candidate—ran for Louisiana's six U.S. House districts. That's four candidates per district. There were 3.67 candidates per district in 2022, 5.00 candidates per district in 2020, and 4.67 in 2018.
The number of candidates who ran in 2024 is also the second-fewest of any other year in the last 10 years. Twenty-two candidates ran in 2022, the fewest in the last 10 years. Between 2014 and 2022, an average of 30.8 candidates ran each election year.
The 6th Congressional District was the only open district, meaning no incumbents filed to run. Between 2022 and 2014, an average of 0.8 primaries were contested each year.
Incumbent Rep. Garret Graves (R-6th) did not run for re-election. Graves said he decided to not run for re-election because of the revised congressional maps.[7]
The 1st, 2nd, and 6th Congressional Districts were tied for the most candidates who ran for a seat in Louisiana in 2024. Five candidates ran in each district.
All six primaries were contested in 2024. Between 2022 and 2014, an average of 5.2 primaries were contested each year.
Five incumbents—one Democrat and four Republicans—were in contested primaries in 2024. Between 2022 and 2014, an average of 4.2 incumbents were in contested primaries each year.
The 4th Congressional District was guaranteed to Republicans because no Democrats appeared on the ballot. Republicans filed to run in every congressional district, meaning none were guaranteed to Democrats.
Instead of conducting a true primary election, Louisiana employed a majority-vote system, which Ballotpedia called the Louisiana majority-vote system. If a candidate receives a majority of the votes cast for an office, he or she wins outright. If no candidate reaches that threshold, a second round of voting is held between the top two vote-getters.| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for Louisiana, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| Louisiana's 1st | Steve Scalise |  Republican |
R+22 |
| Louisiana's 2nd | Troy Carter |  Democratic |
D+16 |
| Louisiana's 3rd | Clay Higgins | Republican |
R+24 |
| Louisiana's 4th | Mike Johnson | Republican |
R+27 |
| Louisiana's 5th | Julia Letlow | Republican |
R+19 |
| Louisiana's 6th | Garret Graves | Republican |
D+8 |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, Louisiana[8] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden 
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Donald Trump 
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| Louisiana's 1st | 30.0% | 68.1% | ||
| Louisiana's 2nd | 67.1% | 31.2% | ||
| Louisiana's 3rd | 28.0% | 70.3% | ||
| Louisiana's 4th | 24.6% | 73.8% | ||
| Louisiana's 5th | 32.3% | 66.0% | ||
| Louisiana's 6th | 59.0% | 39.3% | ||
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Louisiana's congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Louisiana | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Republican | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 6 | 8 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Louisiana's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in Louisiana, May 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Jeff Landry
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| Lieutenant Governor | Billy Nungesser
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| Secretary of State | Nancy Landry
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| Attorney General | Liz Murrill
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State legislature
Louisiana State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 11 | |
| Republican Party | 28 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 39 | |
Louisiana House of Representatives
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 32 | |
| Republican Party | 73 | |
| Independent | 0 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 105 | |
Trifecta control
The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.
Louisiana Party Control: 1992-2024
Eight years of Democratic trifectas • Six years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R |
| Senate | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| House | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Petition signatures only required in lieu of a filing fee.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedlaprimexp - ↑ NBC News, "Louisiana Republican Garret Graves says he won't seek re-election after Supreme Court ruling on redistricting," June 14, 2024
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
